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https://snarfed.org/2026-08-31_57557

Published: August 31, 2026 23:50

boiling is the worst way to cook food this includes bagels, shellfish, even hot pot pasta is only good because you immediately put tasty non-boiled stuff on it before you eat it I will not be taking questions at this time

https://snarfed.org/2026-08-18_57517

Published: August 18, 2026 18:49

High gas and oil prices may be hard on working class people, and on supply chains, but they’re good for progress on the climate crisis. I’m optimistic that cheap EVs from BYD, Slate, etc will help both sides of this tradeoff. Ideally gas and oil prices…

https://snarfed.org/2026-08-16_57510

Published: August 16, 2026 16:39

Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code. If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own – granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc – it’s 51kloc total. (Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.) I’m not really proud of this, or embarrassed. Just wanted…

https://snarfed.org/2026-08-13_57498

Published: August 13, 2026 16:25

Seen at Finnegan’s Wake, Cole Valley, SF. Marked Canterbury Posters. Haven’t found a source online yet.

https://snarfed.org/2026-08-07_57460

Published: August 7, 2026 13:56

Surprising but true: in 2025, all net new electricity generation added worldwide was clean, ie non greenhouse gas emitting. 99% was renewable! 75% solar, 24% wind. It was actually over 100% total. We added 849 TWh of generation overall in 2025, an increase…

https://snarfed.org/2026-08-03_57445

Published: August 3, 2026 19:46

Much of my career boils down to: All code is liability. Minimize it. Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more. We’re bad at predicting the future. Avoid it. More tests. Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way. Find the…

https://snarfed.org/2026-07-30_57428

Published: July 30, 2026 21:59

Huge, and surprising, and important: dementia is down by almost half over the last 40-50y! (Also reconfirms that amyloid beta was largely a red herring, APOE4 is real, and – news to me – the shingles vaccine seems preventative!)